News: Mecha Heroness at the TGS

September 22, 2006, 09:02 AM

by ollie, via various -
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I covered the upcoming 360 bound Super Robot Wars XO in a previous update, but Banpresto have added a movie to the site as well as the news that the game will support Xbox Live versus battles. Despite being similar to the lacklustre GC iteration, the fact that XO will now be online partially makes up for the faults of its progenitor. Though, the main draw here (for me, obviously) is that Layzner and the mighty Cougar get to strut their stuff online.

In other news Armored Core 4 is looking lovely and has had quite the gameplay makeover. The salient points being that; there's a new HUD with a 3D radar, you have masses of AP compared to the previous games, the entire screen is now the lock-on window, the new vernier thrusters are very spritely and the environments are suitably huge.

The only downsides thus far are that the game speed is equatable to Last Raven, which is no bad thing but is not the step up we were promised, and that the heat mechanic from Nexus et al has been dropped (though the jury's out on whether the latter is a detrimental loss).